New Yiddish Rep Juxtaposes Hilarity and Heartbreak in English, Hebrew and Yiddish in Hanoch Levin’s Doubleheader   By Myra Chanin   Hanoch Levin is the greatest modern Hebrew playwright and one of the world’s most prolific, having completed 63 plays in the 55 years he was...

    by Myra Chanin     The New Yiddish Rep’s current production of Awake and Sing, Clifford Odets’ 1935 American masterpiece, is a 21st century miracle. It validates Artistic Director David Mandelbaum’s mishegas/obsession of establishing a Yiddish acting company...

    By Myra Chanin   We all know you don’t have to be Jewish to like Levy’s Rye Bread. Likewise, you don’t have to consider Yiddish mamalushin — your native tongue — to love the New Yiddish Rep’s production of Rhinoceros. Mamma mia! Mamma mia! Wotta production!...

  By Myra Chanin   To me, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict boils down to this image: a rowboat, full of holes that let water in, claimed by two people who can’t stop arguing about ownership long enough to plug the holes and bail out the water, because they would rather sink than let...